You've all see the recent Coding4Fun articles on the Fall Fury project, right? What? No? (Well of course I know YOU have, but maybe there's a few other haven't...) What is Fall Fury anyway? FallFury is a 2D platformer in which the player controls a falling bear, trying to avoid obstacles, dodge…

Download the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/ The last piece of the puzzle we’ll need before building our next complete exercise app is to understand Value Converters. In short, sometimes you want to use data in your View Model that is not in the correct format…

If you're using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), or Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), then XAML is your new best friend! Learn how an entire application-from presentation to data to services to workflow--can
be authored using simple, declarative XAML…

The purpose of this article is to show how you can make your very own, very simple Currency Converter application for Windows Phone 7, using Bing to make all the hard exchanging work! IntroductionMicrosoft has done an absolutely amazing job with the Windows Phone 7, giving each and every one of us…

This is Part 3 of the four part series that walks you through building your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic. Part 3, navigation, layout, and views is divided into two videos. In this first video, we'll show how to navigate between pages, how to use panel controls like the Grid, StackPanel,…

SharePoint developers will likely use a variety of tools to build solutions. In this screencast, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to use Expression Blend 2 to create a Silverlight application
from scratch, and how to extend its functionality using Visual Studio 2008. We won't be looking specifically…

A quick note (since my http://buildwindows.com earlier today was admittedly a little sparse), I just saw project the by David Burela cross my news stream and thought you might find it appropriate. The source is available, though it does use a third party control set (the Infragistics NetAdvantage…

Download the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/ In this final lesson, we’ll build the MapNotes app. It is a GPS-aware note app that records not just the note you take but also where you took that note and displays it on a map. Then you’ll be able to read that note…

Download the source code for this lesson at http://absolutebeginner.codeplex.com/ In this exercise we’ll build a project that combines many of the things we talked about previously into a single example. The Daily Rituals project is essentially it's a goal-tracking app. The idea is, for 30 days,…

Let me congratulate you on making it all the way through this series. Think about how far you've come in such a short amount of time! It takes a high degree of commitment to work your way through 10 hours of content, but you did it, and you definitely have what it takes to see a project through to…